Thanks. I dont like to apply non-standard window decorations as well but users
like it. I think i better give up on skinning the tittlebar. Anyway, more
questions regrading the theme selection. How to override the default theme
selected by GTK+? and what the function of theme engine ?
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:45:14 +0200> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Theme Engine, What is it?> CC: [email protected]> >
> > How can I skin the titlebar of my application with selected theme?> > If
> you are talking about GTK+ themes, you can't. GTK+ themes only> affect how
> the GTK+ widgets look. Title bars and other window> decorations are drawn by
> the window manager or other mechanism of the> windowing system. Through GTK+
> you can only ask the windowing system> to leave out some functionality for a
> window, like the possibility to> minimize a window, resize it, show a title
> bar, etc. But you can't> affect how the decorations look. You need to use
> some window manager> or windowing system tweaks for that.> > (Personally I
> hate applications that use nonstandard window> decorations, like all the
> silly media players out there,)> > That said, as you are on Windows, if you
> search you will find various> 3rd-party software that can be used to tweak
> how the decorations of> some windows look. However, GTK+ doesn't support
> using such 3rd-party> "enhancements". What this means is that if it you do
> use such and it> breaks GTK+, I doubt anybody will be interested in "fixing"
> GTK+. You> will have to make sure yourself that what you do doesn't break
> GTK+.> > --tml
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